Audio magazine Shuffler. fm Gets a great update, gives us a sneak peek at the iPad App

Shuffler. FM, online Web application for the opening music, got a major update today. Users can now play different combinations of their favorite blogs, browse the Web's most popular songs and artists, create personalized feeds and much more.

But what was even more excited upcoming Shuffler. fm iPad application that provides a visual way to explore new music, optimized for the touch screen interface.

For those who don't know Shuffler. fm is the co-founder of Tim Heineke Twones and Tone fm, along with Marcel Corso and Diederik Martens, the Amsterdam-based startup. Its purpose is to aggregate music from around the Web on the genre. Previously users visiting Wheeler on the main page will simply select the genre of their choice, as indie, electronic, hip-hop, folk, etc., in order to play tracks from music blogs around the Internet. The tracks are taken from the list, the curator of the music blogs, classified using the last.FM API, then filed respectively.

But unlike other aggregators of popular music, such as the hype machine, for example, the Shuffler. fm is not only about the Kuwaiti music, it is about providing added context and significance. Taking you direclty music blog hosts the song Shuffler. fm users have the opportunity to learn more about the group or artist, as well as music blogs themselves. The site is often referred to as the "StumbleUpon" for music from this function.

New opportunities

Today, Wheeler and Web users will have access to several options, including the opportunity to play favorite blog as a continuous mix, the search function to search for your favorite artists and blogs and personalized music channel built favoriting individual tracks and blogs.

Besides music blogs you can now set their own accounts in shuffler. fm/blogs. These blogs will offer special features, designed to serve as "Play this blog" button, which launches this blog's feed.

All the new features will begin today, approximately 12 pm.

iPad App coming soon

We've also got a sneak peak at upcoming Shuffler. fm iPad application that brings the Shuffler. fm experience for touchscreen. The ability to move touches and swipes imagining resembles flipping through album art the gap on the remarks, we found.

As you can see from the image, Wheeler iPad app is very similar to the Web version, you also select a genre and surf through blogs. But on the iPad, the application offers a simple set of functions. In addition to the standard play/pause and volume button controls are simply favoriting button and sharing feature, which keeps the interface uncluttered and easily t0-use.

Experience using Shuffler. fm on the stands less akin to StumbleUpon and more like a Flipboard for music, since it ensures that the random, "lean back" consumption experience iPad is known.

IPad app is just a couple of weeks, said Heineke, depending on how quickly his reviews. Of course we look forward to its launch.

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KNO brings 100 000 books for Facebook adds QuizMe and magazine for iPad

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"We are not trying to redefine the tutorial, CEO of Kno Osman Rashid tells me," we are trying to redefine how you learn. " Today Kno has made great steps to more social digital textbooks through the provision of 100 000 books College at its Web site and on Facebook. Textbooks for the Facebook application and site will be presented to the reader through the HTML5 book. So that the students who buy the book through Kno in the iPad app can now read them via the Internet or on Facebook. They can ask questions and comments to their news feeds, with an eye towards the establishment of full circles down the line.

KNO also adds new possibilities of research in its iPad application. In the video above, Vice President of marketing for Osama Haffara QuizMe demos and magazine. QuizMe is a test of any tagged digital chart tutorial. He blacks out tags and allows you to test multiple choice answers, which works well with biology or Anatomy Diagrams. The journal is a digital notebook as a stream.

IPad App lets you already KNO students take notes or highlight passages. He now collects all these notes in the magazine, which organizes all the notes for each tutorial in Evernote as a stream of music. Notes may include highlights, text notes, tutorials, images, audio notes, and even photos taken with the iPad. "To prepare for the exam, not a book, will use the magazine predicts Rashid. Although the history is a collection of private music at launch, Rashid suggests that, in the end, students will have the opportunity to share them with friends.

It's not too difficult to imagine how the flow of notes in the journal can be the basis for the study of flow in the Facebook application at some point down the line. The difficult part will be moving all that can be freely shared with a variety of DRM from all the various textbooks by publishers, but Rashid said that the industry will come to a consensus around how much of the tutorial. (In the end, it's free marketing.)

It was only in April when Kno finally gave up on their own tablet and supported iPad instead. The App was well received, with an average of four stars in iTunes via 205 ratings and only 3% of digital textbooks were Kno returned (service honors 15-day return policy for purchased books). Speaking with Rashid, he seems almost liberated. A focus on software only certainly appears to accelerate the pace of new introductions.

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